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<\/p>\nA patient is in custody at an eastern Sydney hospital after allegedly assaulting several people, including three nurses.<\/p>\n
Police said the 51-year-old man seriously injured a nurse’s leg at Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick about 8:30pm on Saturday night, before assaulting two other nurses and a security guard.<\/p>\n
It is alleged he then attacked a 26-year-old woman with a garbage bin as she was trying to protect a nearby patient.<\/p>\n
Officers from Kings Cross Police Area Command had already been at the hospital for an unrelated matter when they were alerted to the incident.<\/p>\n
Police said the incident had occurred in the emergency department and was mental health related.<\/p>\n
“On arrival, police have attempted to speak to the man; however, the 51-year-old allegedly assaulted one of the officers and a Taser was deployed to subdue him,” NSW Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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Police say the incident happened about 8:30pm on Saturday night in the emergency department. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
He was later arrested, and has now been moved to a secure facility within the hospital.<\/p>\n
He is expected to be charged in coming days.<\/p>\n
Violence in hospitals ‘unacceptable’<\/p>\n
NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association General Secretary Michael Whaites said the union was “deeply alarmed” by the alleged attack.<\/p>\n
“The need for improved security and safety measures in our EDs has once again been brought into sharp focus following this incident,” Mr Whaites said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“With higher acuity and higher volumes of unwell patients, rates of violence and aggression in our hospitals are escalating, and more must be done to make hospitals safer for staff and patients.”<\/p>\n
If you or anyone you know needs help:Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0on 13 11 14Kids Helpline<\/a>\u00a0on 1800 551 800MensLine Australia<\/a>\u00a0on 1300 789 978Suicide Call Back Service<\/a>\u00a0on 1300 659 467Beyond Blue<\/a>\u00a0on 1300 224 636 or its COVID-19 support service\u00a01800 512\u00a0348Headspace<\/a>\u00a0on 1800 650 890ReachOut<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0au.reachout.com<\/a>Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN)<\/a>\u00a0on 1800 008 774Brother to Brother<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a01800 435 799<\/p>\n A report released by the association last month showed 88 per cent of surveyed nurses, midwives and carers had experienced or witnessed violence and aggression on the job.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District said support and care was being offered to those injured in the incident, along with those who witnessed it.<\/p>\n “The safety and wellbeing of our patients, staff and visitors\u2026 are our highest priority,” a statement read.<\/p>\n “Any form of violence in our hospitals is unacceptable.”<\/p>\n The nurse with the leg injury has been hospitalised.<\/p>\n The other staff, the police officer and the member of the public were treated at the scene but did not require further medical care.<\/p>\n The Local Health District said there was no ongoing threat to patients and staff, and the hospital remained open.<\/p>\n An investigation into the incident by police and the health service was ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A patient is in custody at an eastern Sydney hospital after allegedly assaulting several people, including three nurses.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,5315,306173,44,296404,4277,285977,129032,306172],"class_list":["post-632249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-investigation","tag-kings-cross-police-area-command","tag-news","tag-nsw-nurses-and-midwives-association","tag-nsw-police","tag-prince-of-wales-hospital","tag-south-eastern-sydney-local-health-district","tag-violence-against-hospital-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}